Medicine: Transplanted Gland

The harder doctors have tried to trans plant glands from one person to
another, the more they have become convinced that their best chance is
with the swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last
week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein
Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and
transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids
attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked
well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind.